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Wohlf··on Boom Supersonic hopes to test-fly its supersonic plane in 2021
Would this even be carbon neutral? It will require a lot of power to process carbon out of the air, and will go back in the air when they burn the fuel. Not to mention the logistics and manufacturing of everything involved.
Wohlf··on Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better
Slow is smooth, smooth is fast.
Wohlf··on Rideshare operations are being suspended in California
California is so well managed the state never has issues with bare essentials like power, water, or housing.
Wohlf··on Can't you just right click?
You may be surprised how much equivalent laptops from other OEMs have caught up. The Dell XPS is very similar to the Macbook Pro, and Dell supports Ubuntu on it.
Wohlf··on Popular seafood species in sharp decline around the world
I'm sure there's also food chain considerations with massive knock on effects for the entire ecosystem.
Wohlf··on Let’s Learn x86-64 Assembly: Part 0 – Setup and First Steps
It's not just you, modern x86 is very complicated. There are likely few if any people who deeply understands all of it.
Wohlf··on Ask HN: How do you switch off from work, particularly when working from home?
Routine and context change can make a big difference.
Wohlf··on Apple, Epic, and the App Store
Yes, and when Microsoft was found to be abusing their monopoly position, they faced antitrust suit and lost. Epic thinks the same is now true of Apple.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_v._Microsoft_Cor....

Wohlf··on Using a Yubikey as a touchless, magic unlock key for Linux
I believe the Yubikey will function as a smart card for AD authentication.
Wohlf··on Apple to kill Epic’s accounts on Friday the 28th
I believe Epic's entire case revolves around phones being a general computing device, so they'll be using the Microsoft antitrust case law.
Wohlf··on Mindfulness and meditation can worsen depression and anxiety
I mostly agree but I wouldn't classify repressed memories coming back up as a sore muscle, that's more like a broken bone.
Wohlf··on Stanford cancels plans to bring half of undergrads back to campus
Well unfortunately for schools and students all of those things are luxuries.
Wohlf··on Young children would rather explore than get rewards
Also, much closer to the ground.
Wohlf··on Single Page Applications using Rust
C# as well via Blazor.
Wohlf··on Google announces Pixel 5, Pixel 4A 5G, and Pixel 4A
Try the Moto G, I bought one through Google Fi since it wasn't much more than a screen replacement and has significantly better battery life, though I do miss some of the other features.
Wohlf··on Apple reports Q3 results
First and foremost, the stock market is not the economy. Second, stocks are primarily traded on their expected future value, not current profits, hence why companies like Tesla have a price to earnings ratio that is absurd.
Wohlf··on What Is the PCI of Bank Payments?
This is why defense-in-depth is so important. Very few companies can test and rollout a patch in a few days, and that's not even accounting for regulatory concerns that may add additional time.
Wohlf··on We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)
How did you get 0% loans? That is an incredible privilege, and reinforces what the previous poster says imo.
Wohlf··on Amazon gets priority while mail gets delayed, say US letter carriers
This has been my experience as well. Also, anything coming from the nearest distribution center always arrives on time, but anything else is a crapshoot.
Wohlf··on 62% of Americans Say They Have Political Views They’re Afraid to Share
Most interesting to me is how common this is across demographic groups.

>Self‐ censorship is widespread across demographic groups as well. Nearly two‐ thirds of Latino Americans (65%) and White Americans (64%) and nearly half of African Americans (49%) have political views they are afraid to share. Majorities of men (65%) and women (59%), people with incomes over $100,000 (60%) and people with incomes less than $20,000 (58%), people under 35 (55%) and over 65 (66%), religious (71%) and non‐ religious (56%) all agree that the political climate prevents them from expressing their true beliefs.

Wohlf··on The trauma of Facebook’s content moderators
For me it was more like watching nature documentaries, morbid curiosity and all that. There wasn't really anything I'd consider snuff on that subreddit, it was natural death, murder, and accidents, all of which are part of natural life.

I found most of the videos less offensive than extremely graphic horror movies, which ironically I have less stomach for. If anything that subreddit made me generally more aware of my surroundings and safer in my daily life.

Wohlf··on Elo sucks – better multiplayer rating systems for smaller games (2019)
>Why so many game devs are enamored with Elo when it comes to ranking is a bit bizarre.

Probably just Occam's Razor, they don't know of or care to make something better and can just pull Elo off the shelf.

Wohlf··on Facebook overrides fact-checks when climate science is “opinion”
This case seems to apply to public officials, I assume it would be different for private citizens?
Wohlf··on Top EU court overturns US data transfer agreement in Facebook case
Sounds similar to GDPR.
Wohlf··on Nuclear Energy Is Climate Justice
Is the damage and waste from nuclear even close to all the climate, air quality, and even radioactive damage the equivalent amount of fossil fuel energy production has done?
Wohlf··on Is It Time to Kill the Penny?
>standardize on a single sales tax rate across the country

My modest proposal, do what Alaska, Delaware, Montana, New Hampshire, and Oregon have all done and eliminate it. Sales tax is annoying and regressive.

Wohlf··on The TikTok War
I have no clue how The Great Firewall is not considered a straight up blockade.
Wohlf··on Huawei 5G kit must be removed from UK by 2027
The annexation of Tibet was in 1951, claims to Taiwan have always been there, and the subjugation of millions is nothing new (Great Leap Forward and Cultural Revolution were in the 50s and 60s).

I think people are just waking up to the reality that the opening of China will not automatically lead to greater liberalism as was predicted.

Wohlf··on The Greatest Teaching Techniques Don't Compute over Zoom
Could you not re-use the same lecture though?
Wohlf··on U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation
Does this depend on the reservation? I've heard of reservations where you basically couldn't build a permanent structure or get a building loan due to how the tribal land rules work.

It's kind of fascinating having these micro-nations that aren't quite nations within our borders, I should read more in to this subject.

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